Fahad Razak, Saeha Shin, Frances Pogacar, Hae Young Jung, Laura Pus, Andrea Moser, Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Terence Tang, Janice L Kwan, Adina Weinerman, Shail Rawal, Vladyslav Kushnir, Denise Mak, Danielle Martin, Kaveh G Shojania, Sacha Bhatia, Payal Agarwal, Geetha Mukerji, Michael Fralick, Moira K Kapral, Matthew Morgan, Brian Wong, Timothy C Y Chan, Amol A Verma
BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak increases the importance of strategies to enhance urgent medical care delivery in long-term care (LTC) facilities that could potentially reduce transfers to emergency departments. The study objective was to model resource requirements to deliver virtual urgent medical care in LTC facilities. METHODS: We used data from all general medicine inpatient admissions at 7 hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, over a 7...
July 2020: CMAJ Open